Things aren’t always what they appear to be. At a glance, “The Tall Man” looks like it’s going to be yet another spooky, slasher-type movie. Instead, it turns out to be a suspenseful mystery. The town …

As a kid in the early 1960s, I found “Bonanza” rather difficult to fathom. It always seemed to have a “plot” that got in the way of the expected gunfights, barroom brawls, cattle stampedes and general …